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Estimates of Eligible Voters in Counties of the United States, 1972 (ICPSR 7528)

Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary:

Census data on the number of eligible voters in the United
States in 1972 as well as the number and percentage of citizens who
voted for president in 1972 are presented in this data
collection. Both county-level and state-level records are provided,
with a unique numeric identification number assigned to each county or
independent city within each state. Individual state information is
presented in regional group order,(i.e., New England, Middle Atlantic,
East North Central, West North Central, ... (more info)

Census data on the number of eligible voters in the United
States in 1972 as well as the number and percentage of citizens who
voted for president in 1972 are presented in this data
collection. Both county-level and state-level records are provided,
with a unique numeric identification number assigned to each county or
independent city within each state. Individual state information is
presented in regional group order,(i.e., New England, Middle Atlantic,
East North Central, West North Central, Solid South, Border States,
Mountain States, Pacific States, and External States).

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Study Description

Citation

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Estimates of Eligible Voters in Counties of the United States, 1972. ICPSR07528-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research[distributor], 2002. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07528.v1

Methodology

Data Source:

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the
Census. "Language Minority, Illiteracy and Voting Data Used in Making
Determinations for the Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1975 (Public
Law 94-73)." CURRENT POPULATION REPORTS, SERIES P-25 no. 627 (June
1976).

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: